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Re: DIsk conversion question

The number 6 was mentioned by Pete Massiello in his presentation on hosting i on i - I believe this may come from the low-level SLIC IO implementation, which has 6 queues for IO - it'd take at least 6 to fill them up to start with. At least, this was the case in 2001!

Vern

On 5/21/2012 2:09 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Don't know if there's any relation to LUNs on a san and storage spaces
from a guest on to a host but 6 (or more) does seem to be a magic number
according to:
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201111/msg00044.html
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201111/msg00114.html
http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/201111/msg00080.html


Rob Berendt

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